41 Facts About Geoffrey Cannon

Since the early 1980s, Cannon has worked in public health, mostly food and nutrition policy.

Geoffrey Cannon co-authored with Hetty Einzig, the bestseller Dieting Makes You Fat, and with Caroline Walker, the bestseller The Food Scandal: What's Wrong with the British Diet and How to Put It Right.

Geoffrey Cannon is a former director of science for the World Cancer Research Fund and now lives in Brazil where he is a member of the Centre for Epidemiological Studies in Nutrition and Health, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Geoffrey Cannon won a scholarship to Christ's Hospital public school in Horsham in the county of Sussex.

Geoffrey Cannon subsequently attended Oxford University as an undergraduate at Balliol College.

Geoffrey Cannon recalls that hearing Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring played loudly on a family friend's state-of-the-art hi-fi, at the age of fourteen, first enlightened him to the power of music.

Geoffrey Cannon's first published writings on popular culture appeared in 1962 in New Society, where he was a founder-member of the editorial staff.

Geoffrey Cannon worked in-house for the magazine, later becoming its design, art, production, and arts editor.

Geoffrey Cannon wrote the documentary film London Rock, focusing on the UK's counterculture movement.

Geoffrey Cannon recalls that, together with Rolling Stone journalists David Dalton and Jonathan Cott, he joined Granada Television documentary-makers such as Jo Durden-Smith, John Sheppard and Michael Darlow in devising "prime-time networked shows designed as anthems of the revolution".

Geoffrey Cannon directed the film of Frank Zappa's performance at the 1970 Palermo Pop Festival, for RAI, Italy's national public broadcaster.

Geoffrey Cannon says he was frustrated by The Guardians habit of cutting down his submissions and stopped writing for the paper in 1972.

In early 1969, Geoffrey Cannon became editor of Radio Times, which had a circulation of 3.8 million.

In 1976, Radio Times and Geoffrey Cannon won Design and Art Direction Gold Awards for editorial design.

Geoffrey Cannon wrote a monthly Fun Runner column for Running magazine from 1979 to 1987.

Geoffrey Cannon organised a team, including himself, to run the 1980 New York marathon.

Geoffrey Cannon's focus on fitness resulted in regular coverage of the 'Getting in Shape' citizen running project, which he developed from Fun Runner '82, and in the 1982 New Year issue of The Sunday Times ran a feature by Cannon with the title 'Dieting makes you fat'.

Geoffrey Cannon then discovered that an official report on the state of British nutrition and health had been delayed and allegedly suppressed, apparently because of its overall message, that the typical British diet was a main cause of many disabling or deadly conditions and diseases.

From October 1984 until New Health closed in October 1986, Geoffrey Cannon wrote monthly columns, winning The Publisher's 1986 best specialist columnist award.

In 1984, with Caroline Walker, an English food campaigner and nutritionist who later became his second wife, Geoffrey Cannon wrote The Food Scandal, which became a UK best-seller.

Geoffrey Cannon subsequently authored The Good Fight, a biography of Walker, who died from colon cancer in 1988.

Geoffrey Cannon became interested in antibacterial drugs in general and in 1991, supported by a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship, he interviewed various authorities.

Geoffrey Cannon concluded that the overuse and abuse of antibacterial drugs in human and animal medicine and rearing was evolving drug-resistant bacteria and already amounted to a catastrophe.

In 1993, Geoffrey Cannon joined the World Cancer Research Fund, becoming head of science and head and director of the secretariat on behalf of WCRF of the 670-page report Food, Nutrition and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective, published in 1997.

Geoffrey Cannon moved to Brazil in 2000 and is resident there.

Geoffrey Cannon compiled a report on Alimentos Regionais Brasileiros, issued in 2002.

Geoffrey Cannon was a member of the official Brazilian government delegation to the 107th World Health Organization Executive Board meeting held in Geneva between 15 and 22 January 2001.

Geoffrey Cannon wrote two linked papers, developed from lectures given in Australia and New Zealand in April 2002.

Geoffrey Cannon proposed a return to the originally ancient natural philosophy of dietetics as the good life well led, of which food and eating is one part.

Geoffrey Cannon then wrote The Fate of Nations, subtitled "Food and Nutrition Policy in the New World", in which he proposed that the pressing need now was to conserve resources and the biosphere.

In 2004, Claus Leitzmann and Geoffrey Cannon developed what became known as the "New Nutrition".

Geoffrey Cannon was invited by the Public Health Foundation of India to give the opening plenary lecture at an international conference in Hyderabad in August 2008 on the future of public health.

Brazil held the presidency of the World Federation of Public Health Associations in 2009, and Geoffrey Cannon was a member of the Brazilian delegation to the 12th meeting in Istanbul.

Geoffrey Cannon drafted the WFPHA Istanbul Declaration: Health, the First Human Right.

Geoffrey Cannon continued working for the World Cancer Research Fund after moving to Brazil, mainly as chief editor of its second report, published in 2007, and of a separate policy report published in 2009.

Geoffrey Cannon designed, edited, and wrote a monthly column and editorial for the journal, ceasing as editor in 2016.

Geoffrey Cannon was one of the 19 working in Brazil, four of whom came from Carlos Monteiro's department.

Geoffrey Cannon then lived in Notting Dale from 1968 to 1999.

Geoffrey Cannon married Caroline Walker in 1987; she died in 1988.

Geoffrey Cannon is author of seven books, editor of many reports, and author or co-author of more than 650 papers, commentaries, and profiles, including:.

Geoffrey Cannon's most-cited papers in academic journals registered by the Web of Science are published by Publons.